Maraviglioso Boccaccio / Wondrous Boccaccio (2015) DVD9

Boccaccio’s 14th century masterpiece has inspired artists for centuries, from Chaucer to Shakespeare and from Voltaire to Poe.

The plague is decimating Florence in 1348, striking terror among the healthy few. A group of young, aristocratic women decide to leave the city and, with male peers in tow, move into a country villa where they hope to escape the horrors of the Black Death. To distract themselves from hours spent uncomfortably trying to forget their precarious mortality, they tell each other stories about love: fulfilled, thwarted, illicit and rewarded.